Breaking News 22/07/99:.
KOSOVA FACES `TOTAL ANARCHY'
THE DANGER facing Kosova is no longer starvation but descent into anarchy, the Liberal Democrat leader, Paddy Ashdown, warned yesterday.
Mr Ashdown, on a fact- finding mission to the province, the latest of many trips to the Balkans, said: "The situation now in Kosova is a race between order and disorder and disorder has a head start."
Speaking from the capital, Prishtina, he said: "The world probably believes that there is a humanitarian crisis in Kosova - there is a humanitarian challenge but I'm reasonably convinced that it will get through the winter. There isn't a humanitarian crisis, but there is an administrative crisis and unless we tackle that there is a danger that Kosova will simply descend into Balkan chaos."
Mr Ashdown's remarks reflect growing fears that the international forces running Kosova are failing to keep the province under control. Every day, Serbs are driven out of their homes by Albanians who have returned to rule the roost. Meanwhile, Albanians settle scores among themselves.
Slobodan Milosevic's Serb-run police are gone; the only Albanian force that could replace it is the Kosova Liberation Army, whose supporters include a heavy sprinkling of thugs.
Kosova Serbs are so frightened that most have fled. Those who stay are deeply scared. Nor is this just ethnic revenge. Criminals from Albania and from Kosova itself have the run of the unpoliced province.
For this problem to be fully addressed, the now powerful KLA, with all its murky connections, will need to have its wings clipped. But it will be difficult to bring under control a force that Kosova Albanians are more loyal to than ever before.
Greece wins the battle over the location of reconstruction HQ's
The unseemly squabbles that broke out in the EU foreign ministers' meeting on Monday over where to site the Balkan regeneration agency are only the latest rounds in the ugly fight over who is going to make the biggest profits out of the reconstruction of Kosovo.
There is a long and quarrelsome line of interests waiting to be rewarded: in each of the prosperous nations of the European Union building firms, structural engineers and consultants are jockeying for position. The poorer countries, many of whom suffered directly the consequences of Nato bombing, are impatient too, but for rather more urgent reasons.
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